Our ‘Taste Sense’ Experiment

Taste is one of our five senses. We taste with our tongues. Some things taste sweet, some things taste salty and some things taste bitter.

Today we made an experiment to test if we could tell the difference between different things. We had to cover our eyes with our jumpers. We also need to close our nose. We were not able to use our sense of sight or our sense of smell.

We worked in pairs. While one person was blindfolded the other person got a sample of something to taste and put it on the cotton bud. Then the cotton bud was put on to the other persons tongue!

The lemon and vinegar were very bitter tastes. The honey was sweet tasting and the salt was very salty.

It was important to use clean cotton buds every time we tried a new taste. This was a fun experiment today.

Here are a few questions we asked:

1. How well did your sense of smell kick in when your sense of sight and sense of smell were not in use?
2. Were you a bid afraid of what might be placed on your tongue?
3. Were any of the tastes better or worse with your eyes closed ?
4. What happened when you pinched your nose for the taste test? Did you loose your sense of taste?
5. Did you notice that your tongue sensed sweet, salty, bitter and sour foods on different parts of your tongue? We have taste buds on our tongues. Some parts of the tongue pick up tastes better than others.